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Behind the scenes at Monster SCALE Summit...live now www.scylladb.com/monster-scal...
Day 1 of Monster Scale Summit is here! We have 20 sessions on tap for today, including keynotes from @dorlaor.bsky.social, Ethan Donowitz & Peter French, Thea Aarrestad, and Pat Helland & Daniel May. You can still join our free and virtual March 11-12 conference > www.scylladb.com/monster-scal...
A trillion transactions... Join us tomorrow at Monster Scale Summit.
If you're into hearing about complicated migrations of mission-critical payments platforms, you should check out my talk tomorrow at Monster Scale Summit.
At AMEX, we didn't just migrate the Payments Network once; we did it twice, zero downtime.
www.scylladb.com/monster-scal...
Monster Scale Summit (free and virtual) starts tomorrow. Pop in to learn from an incredible lineup (@skamille.themanagerswrath.com, @antirez.bsky.social, @martin.kleppmann.com, @muratdemirbas.bsky.social, @dominiktornow.bsky.social, @teivah.dev Pat Helland, Joran Greef....) www.scylladb.com/summit
Blog post is out! www.ssp.sh/blog/why-i-s...
Sprig used Postgres like most startups. However, its business grew faster than expected. Get the scaling lessons they learned from their Postgres to ClickHouse + Redis, and then to ScyllaDB journey during Brendan Cox's Monster Scale Summit session. www.scylladb.com/monster-scal...
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📖 Your Weekend Read: @kelseyhightower.com had one of the most talked about 2025 Monster Scale Summit sessions. Whether it was sharing past work experiences or drawing on insights from his book, this keynote had many memorable takeaways. Learn more: ow.ly/uj9R50Yq7ue
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"Scale isn't just performance or distribution, it's survivability." - @tigerbeetle.com's @joran.tigerbeetle.com. At Monster Scale Summit, find out what keeps most transaction processing systems from scaling and how to survive billions of transactions. www.scylladb.com/monster-scal...
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Through case studies from games like Super Metroid and Mario 64, @mcy.gay explores how engineering teams should think about balancing aggressive optimization against system stability and maintainability. Don't miss this at Monster Scale Summit > www.scylladb.com/monster-scal...
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[new blog post]
800th blog post: Write that Blog!
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A print copy of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition
Just received my author copies of the second edition of DDIA! After years of seeing it only on-screen, holding the final print book in hand is very special. @chris.blue
Same -- I kinda wish it was either shorter or longer. A lot of the second-half threads could have been fun to unravel.
Read Shadow Ticket yet?
a screenshot of an excerpt from an interview with Murat Demirbas about writing engineering blog posts
New tech blogger interview -- this time we’re featuring @muratdemirbas.bsky.social, who’s about to publish his 800th (!) blog post
writethatblog.substack.com/p/murat-demi...
Take stack ranking and toss in a merger for a truly terrible situation
A fun blog writing (or video creation) project...
- Owning a $5M data center // Harald Schäfer, Comma.ai
- Learning from context is harder than we thought // Shihan Dou and Pluto Zhou, Tencent
- How to build a distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage // Dan Harrison, @turbopuffer.bsky.social
- Farewell, Rust // Dmitry Kudryavtsev
- six thoughts on generating c // Andy Wingo
a screenshot of writethat.blog picks for February engineering blogposts
Piotr's latest engineering blog picks for writethat.blog...
- Apache Iggy’s migration journey to thread-per-core architecture powered by io_uring // @iggy.rs
- Look ma, no FUSE! // @sarna.dev
- Catching a caching bug at Readyset // Michael Victor Zink, @antithesis.com
✍🏻 Interesting Links in the Data & AI World, February 2026
Links from @gunnarmorling.dev, @nbuesing.bsky.social, @ssp.sh, @sap1ens.com, @neelesh.bsky.social, @rstephens.me, @justincormack.bsky.social, @sogrady.org, @simonwillison.net, @cassidoo.co, and more!
🔗 rmoff.net/2026/02/27/i...
Be there as @antirez.bsky.social explores the inner working of HNSWs and their implementation tradeoffs, and shows how vector indexes are exposed as a data type similar to the past ones in Redis. It's a keynote for Monster Scale Summit, free and virtual www.scylladb.com/monster-scal...
You see, I'm ok with AI usage in many ways. Yet I can't understand why people that don't have deficiencies in written expression use it for writing. Emails. Blog posts. Comments. Why? We only lose something in this way. We want your voice.
A screenshot of Gwen Shaprira's responses to questions about her blogging experiences
For our latest tech blogger interview, we’re featuring @gwenshap.bsky.social.
writethatblog.substack.com/p/gwen-shapi...
Book cover of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition". It has a similar wild boar on the cover as the first edition, but it uses O'Reilly's new cover design, and the boar is now slightly colourised.
The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅
(BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)
If you're a technical IC who cares about application performance, you should check out Monster Scale Summit. I had a great time keynoting last year, and the speaker lineup this year looks excellent!
youtu.be/eon5E356kNE
We’re hosting an absolutely amazing lineup of speakers and talks this year. Take a look and pls join us if anything looks interesting. It's free + virtual. www.scylladb.com/2026/02/17/m...
And we're chuffed to learn a new word :-) Thanks for sharing!
